1192 Minamoto Yoritomo becomes Seii Tai Shōgun and the de facto ruler of Japan. (Traditional Japanese date: July 12, 1192)
1703 The Edirne Event: Turkish army removes Sultan Mustafa II, lessening the power of the sultans
1772 King Gustav III of Sweden completes a coup d’etat by adopting a new Constitution and installing himself as an enlightened despot, ending 50 years of parliamentary rule
1888 American inventor William Seward Burroughs patents the adding machine
1911 “Mona Lisa” stolen from the Louvre by Vincenzo Perugia; recovered in 1913
1959 Hawaii becomes the 50th US state
1991 Conservative coup in the Soviet Union is crushed by popular resistance led by Boris Yeltsin in three days
Aug 21 in Film & TV
1942 Walt Disney’s animated movie “Bambi”, based on the book by Felix Salten, is released
2020 BTS’s release new single Dynamite, becomes 1st video to be watched more than 100 million times in 24 hours on YouTube
Aug 21 in Music
2001 “How You Remind Me” single released by Nickelback (Billboard Song of the Year 2002)
Aug 21 in Sport
1986 Ian Botham takes world-record 356th Test Cricket wkt (v NZ, The Oval)
Do you know this fact about today?Did You Know?
1st British unmanned drone hit on a UK citizen outside a conflict – ISIS fighter Reyaad Khan in Raqqa, Syria
Would you believe this fact about today? Would You Believe?
After 108 years a “message in a bottle” put in the sea by UK Marine Biological Association is announced found on a beach in Amrum, Germany
